Verlag Martin Koch. If you want to use the same image download it from the free stock photo site Stock.XCHNG (Search for Photo #426208 by entering 426208 into the search field. The image was shot by Piotr Lewandowski from Poland. Downloading is free but registering is required). For this tutorial you need Photoshop and my DitherFREE plugin. If you use Mac OS X see the notes at the end. Step 1 To get a visible dither pattern resize the image first: Goto Image > Image Size...Ceck the Resample Image and Constrain Proportions checkbox (If availabe choose Bicubic Sharper)Enter a Width between 500 and 1000 pixelsHit OK Step 2 Duplicate the background layer: Press Strg JRename the new layer to "Dither" Step 3 Select the Dither layer and press Strg Shift UGoto Filter > Sharpen > Unsharp Mask...Use Amount: 500, Radius: 5, Threshold: 1Hit OK Step 4 Dither the image: Use Filter > Martin Koch line art > DitherFREEChoose Bill Atkinson DitheringHit OK Step 5 Set the blending mode of the dither layer to Screen: The result: Tips.
Create an Illustrated Look From a Photograph. In this tutorial, I will show you how the create a stylized illustrated look from a photograph. The best part is that it requires no artistic ability! You can do this to any photo and pretty much any subject, but I think it works best with people. Before/After You can see a Before/After below (just roll over the image once it's all loaded in). Step One: Create a new Solid Color Adjustment layer and fill it with White. Step Two: We are going to use the Pen Tool (P) to trace all of the basic structural elements of the image. With the Pen Tool selected, simply click anywhere you would like to start then continue to click and drag to trace the part you are working on with the path. A common misconception is that a path needs to be a loop. Step Three: Turn on your white layer and your blank layer. With the blank layer still selected, hit D to make black your foreground color then right/control - click on the path and choose Stroke Path.
Step Four: Hit B for the Brush Tool. Step Five: Step Six: How To Produce A High Contrast Sketch Effect. Settings on all 3 layers are Opacity: 60, Fill: 100 Soft Contrast Some subjects deserve a gentler treatment, so here I applied Gaussian Blur to the middle Overlay layer. Settings on all 3 layers are Opacity: 60, Fill: 100 Photoshop CS5 & Photoshop CS5 Extended - Best Deals From Adobe Adobe Photoshop CS5 delivers breakthrough capabilities to help you create images with impact.
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We’ll convert our subject image as follows: 1. Open our project image and immediately duplicate the background layer by right clicking the background layer and selecting ‘Duplicate Layer’. 2. 3. 4. 5. Our effect looks like this now: 6. And voila…our dramatic gritty effect is complete! Photoshop converts a Photo to a Pencil Sketch. Ladies and Gentlemen, we introduce you to Tim Shelbourne and welcome his Photoshop expertise to this issue of DTG! Welcome Tim, and thank you so much for sharing this tutorial... [Editor's Note: Folks, we regularly get two or more requests from readers for any help using Photoshop to convert a photo to a sketch -- pencil, charcoal, conte, or other mediums. This is by far the very best tutorial we've seen to date -- bar none! When we saw this technique in the Photoshop Photo Effects Cookbook we knew at once we had to share it with you! Thanks to O'Reilly Publishing we're able to bring the technique to you in its entirety!
Tim Shelbourne writes... Ask any artist and they'll tell you that all the tubes of paint in the world cannot replace the simple pencil when it comes to artistic potential. Don't worry if your drawing abilities aren't up to snuff, all that's required here is the ability to scribble! (1) Open your original image in Photoshop. In the Color Picker, choose a light gray. Creating a Shiny Chain with Photoshop. In this tutorial we'll use Photoshop CS to create a shiny new chain. We'll cover creating shapes using a knockout techniques with Shape Layers to applying some fairly sophisticated contours with Layer Styles. This tutorial will help you rethink how Photoshops Layer Styles work and by the end you'll not only have a damn sexy chain, but have learned some new techniques by thinking out of the box on how we assume things should work. Time to get to it! Bonus Tutorial and Contest! There's a second part to this tutorial over at Fuel Your Creativity where we'll take this completed shiny chain and make it look old, rusted and distressed.
Final Image Preview Take a look at the image we'll be creating. Tutorial Details Program: Photoshop CS 2, 3 & 4Difficulty: IntermediateEstimated Completion Time: 30-40 minutes Video Tutorial Our video editor Gavin Steele has created this video tutorial to compliment this text + image tutorial. Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Let's chrome this puppy! Step 6 Step 7 Step 8. Design a Shiny Photorealistic Apple Remote. Apple has so many beautiful products. Their product designs consistently attain a sought-after status, which distinguishes them as an innovative company. In this tutorial, I'll teach you how to make a shiny new apple remote. Step 1 First of all, create a new document and fill it with black. Step 2 Make a new shape like the next image using the Rounded Rectangle Tool with a Radius of 5px or so. Step 3 Make a selection of this Remote Shape.
Step 4 Now we will add some simple shades to the shape to make it look more real. Step 5 Now using the same technique, make a darker shape. Step 6 Now get the white and the grey shapes closer. Step 7 Now we need to make the upper part of the remote. Step 8 We need to mask the white and gray shapes for the remote. Step 9 Now crank down the opacity of the gray and white shapes till it looks something like this. Step 10 You can make the background a light gray color because now we can see the product better. First we will make the MENU button. Step 11 Step 12 Step 13. Easy Star Light in Photoshop. I've been writing tutorials inspired by skateboard deck designs for a few weeks and today it's not going to be different. I'm very addicted to that, I love the ideas some of the designers have and for this tutorial I will recreate a really nice effect with lines forming a star.
However I will go a little bit further and I will transform it in a light effect and add a nice pattern overlay. Everything using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. So in this tutorial we will create a composition from scratch first in Illustrator where we will play with shapes and the Blend Tool. Step 1 We will start our image in Adobe Illustrator. Step 2 With the Line Segment Tool (\) create 2 lines following the base shape of the star. Step 3 With the Blend Tool (W), click on one line then click on the other one. Step 4 Duplicate the whole blend object and move it to the other side of the star. Step 5 Just flip horizontally the on side to get the other one. Step 6 Keep duplicating until you get all the sides covered. Shiny Calligraphy Text Effect in Photoshop. Last week I posted some articles about typography and received quite a few emails asking me to create a tutorial on text effects.
So I decided to play a bit with Photoshop to create a nice sort of 3D effect using a calligraphy font and a lot of Layer Styles. The effect is really simple and we will take a look at how to create patterns and light effects with Blend Modes. Step 1 Open Photoshop and create a new document, I used 1920x1200 pixels for the Size. Then fill the background with a very dark color #1f1e1e. Step 2 With the Background layer selected go to Layer>Layer Style>Gradient Overlay. Step 3 Now go to Filter>Noise>Add Noise. Step 4 Let's add the text. Step 5 Now right below the "Abducted" line type "by". Step 6 Type the word "Design". Step 7 To make the effect more attractive let's add some swirls. Step 8 Place another element in the end of "Design" using the "n". Step 9 Now add another swirl in the "Y". Step 10 Now that you have the text with the swirls convert it to Smart Objects. How To Sharpen An Image - Advanced Photo Sharpening.
Try before you buy. Download any Adobe product for a free 30 day trial. How To Sharpen An Image In Photoshop — Advanced Photoshop Sharpening Techniques Adapted from "Photoshop CS2: Essential Skills" by Mark Galer and Philip Andrews Most if not all digital images require sharpening, even if shot on a state of the art digital megaresolution SLR with pin-sharp focusing. Most cameras or scanners can sharpen as the image is captured but the highest quality sharpening is to be found in the image editing software.
Sharpening in Adobe Photoshop CS2 will allow you to select the precise amount of sharpening and the areas of the image that require sharpening most. The best sharpening techniques prioritize certain areas; in this case, sharpening the eyes of a portrait but avoiding the skin texture. The basic concept of sharpening is to send the Unsharp Mask filter or Smart Sharpen filter on a “seek and manipulate” mission. Step 2 Choose Filter > Other > High Pass. Cleaning up Grainy, Low-Quality Digital Photos with Photoshop. If client-submitted photos are coming straight off an older digital camera, they can be dark, grainy, bland or unbalanced. If they’re the best the client has got and there’s no budget for stock photography, it’s time to improvise.
The goal is a balanced, attractive photo with no distracting flaws. The Original Photo Composition Let’s start with cropping. I usually find a focal point (the golfer) and try to work in its favor, keeping in mind stuff like the rule of thirds. Early in the cleanup process, I also keep an eye out for details which might distract from that focal point. Levels, Curves and Contrast Quality-wise, our photo has plenty of problems, especially the distinctions between Highlights, Shadows and Midtones.
If that’s not quite right, some of the same effects can be accomplished with the Curves adjustment layer. Are parts of the photo now too dark or light? Hopefully the photo has overall better balance now, but notice the golfer’s skin and clothing are still especially dark. Dragan effect Photoshop tutorial | Techniques | PhotoRadar. How to use Lightroom: 8 mistakes every photographer makes (and how to fix them) Adobe Lightroom is an incredibly powerful image organisation and editing software package.
Of course the downside to having such a powerful tool at your disposal is that it’s possible to make some pretty significant mistakes, especially when you’re first learning how to use it. To help out we’ve drawn up a list of the most common mistakes that photographers make when using Lightroom and have some advice about how to get things right from the outset. 8 reasons why cheap kit lenses are the perfect lens The low-cost kit lenses you get with digital SLRs or compact system cameras don’t have much of a reputation, but is that fair? They might be cheap, they might be light, they might not have earth-shattering specifications, but they do have some qualities and advantages that are all too easily overlooked.
Full-frame lenses: 4 quick tips for the first-timer Get striking high-speed black and white effects in Lightroom. Fotografías Estilo Dragan. El maestro Andrzej Dragan (andrzejdragan.com) ha creado una técnica fotográfica simplemente sorprendente; la cual seguramente muchos ya hemos observado por ahí más de alguna vez. Su técnica consiste en crear fotos con un contraste sumamente alto, pero sin perder nunca los tonos calidos y fríos a la vez, teniendo como resultado obras impresionantes. Mucho se intentado emular su técnica y no se llegan a los niveles del maestro Dragan y bueno, este tutorial intenta hacerlo aunque tampoco lo logra; pero al menos dejo una idea básica de cómo se podría hacer, con suerte y alguien la perfecciona y nos pasa el secreto después. Para este tutorial utilice una fotografía de stock y pertenece a: zammstock.deviantart.com, yo utilice un sitio abierto, aunque la técnica funciona igual para rostros y retratos.
Comenzamos trabajando con la siguiente imagen: Primero que nada, duplicamos la capa fondo (ctrl. +J) y le aplicamos una mascara de enfoque para resaltar los bordes de la imagen. How to Make Stencil Art in Photoshop. You don't need a template or a spray-paint to create your own stencil art. I'm gonna teach you how to achieve this stencil art effect on your regular image just by playing with the filters and adjustment layers in Photoshop. I try to keep things simple here.
Just remember, this tutorial is just a guideline on how to get this stencil effect. Different photo might need different settings. So, while following the steps, look at your preview image, and change the settings according to your image. A couple of stencil effect examples before we get started: 1. This is your layer palette now. 2. 3. 4. Here's my settings. 5. 6. 7. This is my image after I applied the Levels adjustment. 8. 9. 10. 11.
Here's some settings you can try and the result I got with my image: a) Set Background copy 2 layer to Lighten with 68% opacity b) Set Background copy 2 layer to Multiply with 50% opacity You're always free to try other settings. Q&A: How can I create a graffiti stencil effect? Question: I’d like to create the effect of a can of spray paint being sprayed onto a wall using a stencil, so I can fake my own digital graffiti to create a flyer for a band. How do I do this in Photoshop? (I’m using CS.) Maggie Rochester Answer: A stencil is a sheet of paper or card that has a design cut into it. The holes in the stencil enable you to quickly and accurately spray text or a logo onto a wall. Step 1: Select the Horizontal Type Mask tool (hold down the mouse over the Horizontal Type tool to get a pop-up of tools in that section). Step 2: Select the Brush tool (B).
Step 3: Sometimes the stencil lifts from the wall, creating a softer letter. Our provides the latest photoshop news, tutorials, features and reviews, while our fan page is the best place to communicate with other Advanced Photoshop fans. Adobe Photoshop Tip– Comic Art Effect (Mac Awesomeness Edition) | MacMerc. Photoshop: Blood! (Watchmen Style) Stone Effect : Photoshop Tutorials -- Absolute Cross. Free Flash CS3 Tutorial.